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Chicago examiner vol vii no 85 a m tuesday march 30 1909 price one cent 9^t*^^ssss i 30 centc per month pi expected attack in council on m v l and dr favill falls flat i machine aldermen afraid to read affidavit assailing dr henry favill m'inerney is spokesman tries to deliver blow by ref erence to published stories of exposure council proceedings passed the kensington & eastern or dinance on it third attempt alderman mc-nerney leading the fig_.t against it faÂ»Â«ed the ordinance allowing city collector to collect licemes and special taxes without the aid of the city clerk received an ordinanoe requiring front age concent for the establishment of garages on residence streets fixed the next meeting of the pres ent city council for april 13 received the annual report of the transportation committee in which the committee again advocates through rout ing of elevated trains with universal transfers after iveeks of investigatior spying and affidavit making the death thrust that was to have beeu made at the munic ipal voters league at the meeting of the city council last night through the presi dent of the league dr henry b favill simmered down to a pointless explosion of general billingsgate from alderman mi chael melnerney of the thirtieth ward the resolution demanding the organiza tion of the new council by a committee of aldermen which should take uo cognizance of the municipal voters league â€” a resolu tion that was to have been pounded through on the strength ot an expose of dr fa vill's alleged past record fell fiat although the so-called belligerents came | to the meeting with the affidavit of former j chief of police john 10 adamson of mad j ison wis in the pocket of one of them they hadj not the courage to read it instead their spokesman alderman me lnerney constituted himself a sort of left-handed defender ot dr favill's past pretending to decry the newspaper publica tion which had given warning of the plot his friends were hatching at infinite pains and large expense afraid to use material he made bold to avail himself of such guardedi statements as have appeared in riie newspapers as a means of taking a furtive dig at the league's president but in view of the forearming of his opponents he dared not make use of his own material and even endeavored to convey the impres sion that he had never heard of a contem plated attack on dr favill another feature significant of the utter root of the belligerents was that alderman thomas f scully of the tenth ward lead er of the onslaught against the voters league committee on organization not only failed to do any fighting on the floor of the council but voted against the resolution offered by his compatriot from the thir lieth ward in anticipation of a very serious attack upon the private character of a man in high standing the council chamber was rowded only a few members of the municipal voters league were there but there were many citizens ot influence and standing in the community and at least twenty stylishly dressed women remarks unprintable they had evidently come under the im pression that an open meeting of the chi cago city council was a perfectly respecta ble performance but before alderman me lnerney had warmed up to his task of icnting upon the municipal voters league in the abstract what he feared to concen trate upon its president they discovered that thc most liberally censored beer gar den is nothing to compare tviih the riotous remarks of an alderman much of what mcjnerncy said could not be printed in any newspaper and could not be uttered publicly outside of a medical clinic or a meeting of the Chicago city council one of mclnern<\v's strongest points was to refer to the municipal voters league as thc municipal viliticrs league and t designate its former officers by some special epithet as for instance when he spoke of waiter 1 fisher as walter four-flasher fisher these boos mots of mclnerneyian wit and sarcasm were greeted with roars of ap proval from his friends who chuckled shook their heads and glanced at their neighbors as who should say ain't he the wonder at repartee " give us the city's property and we will give you our moral influence and sup port this is the motto of the league and 1 can prove it was another big hit with his aldermen friends the alderman went back to the organi lotion f the league fifteen years ago and i discussed all of its presidents and secre tarics and assistant secretaries and ser ! â€¢ geants-at arm about whom he could find anything unpleasant to say he even deemed it advisable to assail ' the business which was conducted by the j father of keilogg r:\irbnnk the present ; secretary of the league the elder fair bank has been in his grave this long time j ind the son never had anything to do with j tjhe business himself but tlie alderman j *-_ arguing that the sins or ihe supposed i sins of the fathers are visited upon the \ broker charges bribe to silence n y paper 2,500 paid to stop criticism of a stock says lawyer check produced in court new york march 29 testimony be fore justice sutherland to-day by joseph h hoadley a stock operator that through his broker andrew mckinney he had paid 52.000 to attorney edmund l mooney to silence the new york herald's criticisms of the international power company was supported to-night by joseph leiter the Chicago millionaire who with hoadley and cyrus field judson is defendant in a civil suit for the recovery of 80,000 claimed to have been lost by franklin scott & co stock brokers leiter to-night declared e regretted that the fact that hoadley and himself had been held up had become public i paid the money regretfully he said in 1901 there appeared in the herald an article which while no name was men tioned plainly alluded to the international power company we were told we could stop the attacks by a money payment but i said i bad never been blackmailed and didn't propose to be hoadley said thai if i did not care to stand for a share of the money he would i pay it all i told him it wasn't that i 1 objected to paying all or half of it but j that it was plain blackmail i told them ito go ahead and write whatever they j pleased that my stock was paid for and i locked up and it did not make a bit of j difference to me hoadley thought differ ently however and thc payment was 111 arte mr hoadley told about fixing the newspaper when his attorney asked him about a 2,500 item he replied mr mooney came to my office on march 3 there was an advertisement appearing in the new york herald he came to my office and proposed to me to stop the col umns of the new york herald for 2,500 from printing anything more about nny i thing pertaining to the international power company mr mckinney was authorized to pay him that money and he so informed me that he did pay him attorney mooney denied that there was auy truth in the blackmail testimony of hoadley and intimated that he intended to sue hoadley for libel dies of auto heart philip flinn famous pittsburg auto ist succumbs to latest disease pittsburg pa march 29 the death of philip flinn the famous pittsburg auto ist and airship expert who died at atlantic city sunday night brings out the fact that for the past two years he had been suffering from what is called auto heart a condition of the heart brought about by the vibration of autos being hurried over rough streets flinn who made perfect scores in both the glidden tours of 1906 and 1907 was warned not to go into the race of 1907 but he did not heed at the same time flinn was warned about his automobile heart his brother senator william flinn was also advised to go easy on the auto craze a warning which the politician appears to have heeded 2 bandits die in fight third safe blower and offi r shot following train holdup gallatin mo march 9 after they bad robbed the safes of two stores in spickard mo and mortally wounded mar shal george caraway at jamesport three robbers were surrounded in a field uear this city to-day and in the resultant battle two were killed and one wounded and cap tured the men left spickard on a hand car and later held up a freight train the conductor notified caraway while one of the robbers attracted the marshal's atten tion another shot him iu the back victoria closes to-day well known hostelry to make room for office building to-day is moving day at thc victoria hotel for to-night it will be closed as a hotel forever to make room for a modern office building last night the permanent residents of ihe hotel began packing their personal effects and to-day will find many of them in new homes for the first time in more than ten years the mini club will give the farewell banqnet to-night after which the employes will be given fi dinner by k a mct'iintock t c capen and edward carr the joint owners 75,000 is lost in mail sacks stolen at georgetown ky no clew to robbers l.i:.\l.\t;i ky march 20.â€”seventy five thousand dollars in cash and checks are missing as the result of two mail bags being stolen at georgetown scott county twelve miles from here last night gov ernment officials are working on the case but with little chances of success as there is 110 clew upon which to base an accusa tion woman's million saves fish trust mrs p a valentine sister-in law of indicted president satisfies bankers stockholders left out wayman will push booth and robbins cases in spite of reorganization a booth & co the failure of which led to the indictment of w vernon booth and frederick r robbins has been re organized by a woman under the stimulus of 1,000,000 sub scribed by irs p a valentin sister of mrs w vernon booth the fish trust will be given a fresh start the agreement for the reorganization was executed yesterday by p a valen tine representing his wife who was the widow of p d armour jr the settle ment was effected at a prolonged confer ence between mr valentine and his at torneys and representatives of the chi cago and eastern banks from whose vaults 3,000,000 had been borrowed by means of financial statements similar to the one which caused the officials of the con tinental national bank to obtain the in dictment of booth and robbins wayman will push cases state's attorney wayman declared last night he would do everything in his power to enforce thc criminal law applicable to the booth case notwithstanding any finan cial settlement william j chalmers receiver for the booth company was before the grand jury yesterday with books and records alexan der robertson of the continental national and a former official of tho booth com pany said to have been ira m smith also testified mr wayman refused to say whether he sought the re-indictment of booth and robbins or the correction of alleged defects in the present indictments it was officially announced that no indict ments would be sought against other booih officials booth eliminated entirely among the important results of the set tlement are : the abandonment of thc search for assets before judge kohlsaat's master in-chancery w vernon booth is eliminated from . the concern the selection of frank c letts for president of the reorganized company the old stockholders are to be given the privilege of purchasing new com pany shares of the par value of 450 for 160 the par value of the old shares the creditor banks get 100 cents on the dollar but the old stockholders get nothing unless they come in under the reorganization plan the reorganization plau will be consum mated by a sale of the company in open court said attorney john barton payne who engineered the settlement the old stockholders can obtain control of thc as sets by outbidding us if they are able to raise the cash take 20 per cent cash attorneys payne and newman issued a statement in which they said a corporation is to be organized with - a capital stock of 7,000,000 divided into 2,000,000 preferred and 3,000,000 common stock and a bond issue of 1,500,000 the creditors will receive for their claims the following 20 per cent in cash 1,000,000 30 per cent in bonds 1.500.000 50 per cent in common stock 2.500,000 total 5,000,000 the number of directors of thc new company will be nine a majority to be selected by the creditors committee the 1,500,000 of bonds will bear in terest at 5 per cent payable semi annually 750,000 thereof to be pay able ou or before eight years the re mainder on or before fifteen years provision is made for a sinking fund of 75,000 per year cumulative to be set apart to take care of the bonds it waa tentatively agreed that a dividend of from â€ž to 6 per cent be paid on the pre ferred stock late last night a representative of the stockholders committee dominated by w vernon booth who owned a majority of the 0,500,000 shares of the old company said that the valentine plau would prob ably not be fought roosevelt attacked at sea by madman steerage passenger rushes at him crying he has let them take away my child now he must pay for it infuriated man is seized by sailors and promptly put in irons only a few aboard knew anything of episode prisoner refuses to eat for 4 days declaring roose velt is trying to poison me doctors taste all food liner hamburg touches at the azores and governor gets aboard to get famous hunt er and take him for drive special cable to the examiner 11 orta fayal island the azores march 29 â€” in the hamburg's steer . e hold lies a man in chains v o seeks the life of theoilore ro a veil former president of this united states onlv air rf se-f velt and a few of his fellow pas*3 sengers know of this furious . oner's existence as the steamer was losing sight of land giuseppe tosti a steer age passenger broke from his j companions and started for th i upper deck where mr roosevel was standing with i i son kcrfl lie has let them take a way mv child shouted tosti in \ 1 j lish xow he shall paj fo it j sailors seized tosli quick 1 a mastered him carried him b_lo_h and by the captain's orders pifl him in irons fl for four days the prisoner rcfus to cat constantly crying uoosevt^b is trying to poison mc now imm ship's doctor must taste all food fl feied to tosti before he will eat il-aw roosevelt has course changed at mr roosevelt's request fl steamship hamburg's course waÃŸ changed to the azores talking to passengers this morninh mr roosevelt said incidentally fl i never can forgive harriman i roosevelt said he sympathizes " h colonor cooper and his son llo'.vh who shot former senator carmaek 1 tennessee he said too in brief 1 believe aifl ships will never be more than scout in war t would not prohibit the usfl of airships or of anything els in wal the only way to prevent wars is ut reform the underlying conditions that cause them when you have to fight i believe in using the most destructive weapons even expanding bullets o as to lick tjie other fellow sa soon as hard as possib'.e sir roosevelt says vs is not alarmed by any possible move the black hand may make against him in co pies but his friends will try to keep him from going ashore there remains at horta two hours the steamship hamburg itinalned here two hours the go cner cf horta a d preltan came out to the steamer and welcomed mr rco.-evclt then took him and hl party ashdrq and drove them about the clly the ship ls duo at gibraltar friday mr roosevelt attended a danco on board the hamburg saturday evening he did not dance bui ilia son kermit took part in the enterlft_nrsent and danced with several of the young women on board all the membera of hie party a â– â– _ well 1 mr roosevelt's gro_i : . t._,;c-uer.^j being followed into fu un_i by s paper correspondents s ltist i\h they would bend out would lessen i elkins in rage attacks senate cabal Taft for deeper tariff cuts says lewis south tired of new england rule says west virginian charges tariff conspiracy demands protection x or old guard isdisrupted likens hale aldrich and lodge to tigers unwilling war for independence washington march 29 fury on the one hand disorder confusion and the destruction of the hitherto conservative band of republican sen ators who lead and direct legislation on the other marked the closing of to-day's session in the upper branch of congress where peace and amity presumably had reigned before among such senators as elkins scott aldrich hale lodge and gallinger these were torn asunder in thirty minutes time this afternoon through the revolt in open senate of elkins of west virginia against an alleged combine of new england senators to control the tariff in the exclusive interests of their own states the revolt of elkins hitherto one of the stand-bys of the old guard came without warning notifying the new england senators that their day of dictatorial authority had come to an end he turned on the thoroughly aston | ished hale of maine and thundered new england le i mands protection for her manufactured articles but you want and insist that yotir raw materials such as coal hides lumber and iron be on the free list time for south to ask protection the hour has come for the south with her 24.000.000 of people and with the raw materials she is manufac turing at home instead of sending to new england to ask for protection three of your members indicating lodge flale and aldrich who are on the finance com mittee and who practically control its deliberations are from new england why is it that neither the middle west nor the south is represented on that committee by a republican i myself attempted not long ago to get on that com mittee as a southern member there was a vacancy but i was turned down and in making up the whole committee you did not go to the border states but you turned away to the western states like utah california and north dakota going as distant from the south as you very well could by this time the southern democratic senators were wide awake they give applause and drew as close to the west virginian as they could get meantime lodge and hale were on their feet the former livid with rage the face of hale the color of a cactus blossom fail to stop elkins attack both were attempting to cut the senator from virginia off from further speech but they didn't succeed for some minutes 1o come it is a fact his voice now raised to his highest pitch i that neither a western republican nor a southern dora ! ocrat is permitted to have au audience with the sub 1 committee now holding sessions to appear before it in j justice to their constituents and why new england does not want them vou â€” " mr president said lodge his voice ringing like that of an ox whip 1 ask that i he senate do now proceed to the consideration of executive business you see replied senator elkins new england can j not keep out of anything instantly the chamber was in tumult the confusion i was so great that the vice president constantly rapped | for order elkins was still standing hale was so an 1 gered that while he attempted to say something ask something words refused to aid him he was speechless battle over floor privilege by this time the democrats exuberant because of elkins desertion lo the cause formerly held sacred by j him were laughing and applauding in turns bacon of ! georgia shouted loudlv for recognition at least nine i other senators were doing the same thing finally order was somewhat restored and hale insisted that he had i yielded to the senator from west virginia merely for a i question and that under the rules he was entitled to the j floor elkins declared that this was not so that he had i the floor and would keep it until he had finished his i speech southern senators barred senator bacon was now permitted to get in a question i he turned to hale and asked does the senator admit that the finance committee has been holding sessions considering the tariff yes replied the maine statesman the committee is having meetings then as an afterthought but it is only a subcom mittee composed of members on the republican side this is an unheard-of procedure shouted senator elkins how can the minority be heard under such an arrangement there are five republican southern e'en senator who split old guard ranks *â€žÂ«â€¢. __**Â«* payne bill is not satisfactory to the present wants tea anc coffee un taxed petroleum on the favors a dividend tax elkins-hale row called down a Â°^ ew england's for tax off stockings by alfred henry lewis â– Â« w ashington d c march 29 af â€” there was a row in the * senate apparently it was between mr elkins and mr hale really it was between new england and the balance of mankind there has been too much new england in the senate irs voice has controlled in every senate discussion its fin ger has bean thrust authoritatively into every senate pie the south and west have resolved to put new england back on the reservation mr elkins was but giving notice thereof the squall blew up over tariff in nocent souls have been hoping that tariff in the making would be short and sweet even mr Taft at one time looked forward to a summer in alaska and a dinner in denver by the way the hopes of those innocent ones have turned to a dull robin-egg blue the elklns-hale bicker which was like a skirmish before a battle made it clear to tha sophisticated that before any tariff measure went to the white house a great senate war must be fought and won elkins starts the skirmish the ground plan of the rumpus was after this man ner mr hale wanted the senate to confine itself to tariff for a space and not go to planning other fields mr bacon sneered at mr hale under cover of a question then mr elkins took the floor he said that the south and west were aweary of new england and the expan sive part she assumed to play in senate affairs through mr aldrich and mr hale new england was making the tariff so as to strip the feathers from the west and south and with them line her own selfish nest there were six republican senators from the south he mr elkins was one they and the south generally in its senate representa tions had resolved to put a limit upon new england the west would be with them the south and west must be granted tariff justice or there would be a fight these things and more said senator elkins mr hale retorted sourly and was as sourly mot the signs promise a struggle between new england and the south and west the senate will be the battle field tariff the bone of contention it can have but one end the claws of new england will be manicured to a safe shortness also the business may for one of its effects prolong tariff indefinitely Taft cannot bring harmony the situation worries mr Taft mr Taft might mend the tariff situation were his grasp a trifle firmer he might for the tariff moment at least compel mr elkins ami mr hale new england and the rest of the world to li'.voll together in unity but mr Taft has thus far in his tariff attitudes been shaky insecure he has stood for an income tax one day to retreat from il the next in similar manner he has blown both hot and cold upon a dividend lax an inheri tance tax and stamp duties along certain lines this white house indecision has bred iudeeision in the breasts of congressmen who make it their first purpose to agree with a president with all deference air Taft listens too much to mr root and mr knox these gentlemen excellent perhaps in divers ways have their limitations indubitably they know what rich men want but does it from that follow tl'.at they know the country's needs mr Taft should do his own thinking at least some of it also he should re flect that there be many things worth doing which mr kiwx and mr root do not want done to-day mr hinshaw talked with mr Taft at the white house he came later to the capitol to tell his fellow membcrs of the house that mr Taft was for taking the duties off the necessities of life and that by necessities mr Taft understood lumber coffee tea leather shoes woolen goods gloves and stockings fears Taft will not stand by guns if mr Taft would stick stoutly for these matters it would hs revision in the right direction but to judge a future by a past which mr patrick henry said was the way a future should be judged mr Taft will ask mr hin shaw to modify or take back every word he said mr Taft it appears is especially earnest to have tea on the free list his reasons therefor are streaked of poll tics the tea tax as threatened would produce only â– continued on 4th page 2d column | i continued on 2d page 2d column y ontlnued on 2d page 2d column wm weather forecast m w Chicago and vicinity gen j^ji k Â£? ertlly fair tuesday and wednesday s â– i m . y not much change in temperature ; [ vv moderate northwest winds becom /'/ "^ law ' ng variable - %, % worth / t am o us paris crea l Â«. _- [ j tors of styles cable j lÂ»recoll l the very latest word on 4 ? redfem ) correct attire for 1909 j if paauin \ t0 tlae as on number > t t / of the Chicago examiner % l *$ i6 js.6fs / ou _ wednesday march v s lacloix \ thirty-first 5 i/_^_r > _**- > y_k jjk phone main 5000 jh i

Chicago examiner vol vii no 85 a m tuesday march 30 1909 price one cent 9^t*^^ssss i 30 centc per month pi expected attack in council on m v l and dr favill falls flat i machine aldermen afraid to read affidavit assailing dr henry favill m'inerney is spokesman tries to deliver blow by ref erence to published stories of exposure council proceedings passed the kensington & eastern or dinance on it third attempt alderman mc-nerney leading the fig_.t against it faÂ»Â«ed the ordinance allowing city collector to collect licemes and special taxes without the aid of the city clerk received an ordinanoe requiring front age concent for the establishment of garages on residence streets fixed the next meeting of the pres ent city council for april 13 received the annual report of the transportation committee in which the committee again advocates through rout ing of elevated trains with universal transfers after iveeks of investigatior spying and affidavit making the death thrust that was to have beeu made at the munic ipal voters league at the meeting of the city council last night through the presi dent of the league dr henry b favill simmered down to a pointless explosion of general billingsgate from alderman mi chael melnerney of the thirtieth ward the resolution demanding the organiza tion of the new council by a committee of aldermen which should take uo cognizance of the municipal voters league â€” a resolu tion that was to have been pounded through on the strength ot an expose of dr fa vill's alleged past record fell fiat although the so-called belligerents came | to the meeting with the affidavit of former j chief of police john 10 adamson of mad j ison wis in the pocket of one of them they hadj not the courage to read it instead their spokesman alderman me lnerney constituted himself a sort of left-handed defender ot dr favill's past pretending to decry the newspaper publica tion which had given warning of the plot his friends were hatching at infinite pains and large expense afraid to use material he made bold to avail himself of such guardedi statements as have appeared in riie newspapers as a means of taking a furtive dig at the league's president but in view of the forearming of his opponents he dared not make use of his own material and even endeavored to convey the impres sion that he had never heard of a contem plated attack on dr favill another feature significant of the utter root of the belligerents was that alderman thomas f scully of the tenth ward lead er of the onslaught against the voters league committee on organization not only failed to do any fighting on the floor of the council but voted against the resolution offered by his compatriot from the thir lieth ward in anticipation of a very serious attack upon the private character of a man in high standing the council chamber was rowded only a few members of the municipal voters league were there but there were many citizens ot influence and standing in the community and at least twenty stylishly dressed women remarks unprintable they had evidently come under the im pression that an open meeting of the chi cago city council was a perfectly respecta ble performance but before alderman me lnerney had warmed up to his task of icnting upon the municipal voters league in the abstract what he feared to concen trate upon its president they discovered that thc most liberally censored beer gar den is nothing to compare tviih the riotous remarks of an alderman much of what mcjnerncy said could not be printed in any newspaper and could not be uttered publicly outside of a medical clinic or a meeting of the Chicago city council one of mclnern t t / of the Chicago examiner % l *$ i6 js.6fs / ou _ wednesday march v s lacloix \ thirty-first 5 i/_^_r > _**- > y_k jjk phone main 5000 jh i